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Thermal soaring flight of birds and unmanned aerial vehicles
Zsuzsa Ákos, Máté Nagy, Severin Leven +1
Thermal soaring saves much energy, but flying large distances in this form represents a great challenge for birds, people and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The solution is to ma…
Viral epidemics in a cell culture: novel high resolution data and their interpretation by a percolation theory based model
Balázs Gönci, Valéria Németh, Emeric Balogh +4
Because of its relevance to everyday life, the spreading of viral infections has been of central interest in a variety of scientific communities involved in fighting, preventing an…
Hierarchical group dynamics in pigeon flocks
Mate Nagy, Zsuzsa Akos, Dora Biro +1
Animals that travel together in groups display a variety of fascinating motion patterns thought to be the result of delicate local interactions among group members. Although the mo…
Collective motion
Tamás Vicsek, Anna Zafeiris
We review the observations and the basic laws describing the essential aspects of collective motion -- being one of the most common and spectacular manifestation of coordinated beh…
Collective decision making in cohesive flocks
K. Bhattacharya, Tamás Vicsek
Most of us must have been fascinated by the eye catching displays of collectively moving animals. Schools of fish can move in a rather orderly fashion and then change direction ama…
A question of scale
Tamás Vicsek
If you search for 'collective behaviour' with your web browser most of the texts popping up will be about group activities of humans, including riots, fashion and mass panic. Never…